Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in Las Vegas, a town not noted for softies, Al Bramlet, 59, stood out as mean. The high-living, free-spending boss of Local 226 of the Culinary Workers Union, which represents 22,000 employees in Nevada's casino hotels and restaurants, Bramlet made enemies as effortlessly as gamblers throw dice. Following a strike last March, his own rank and file accused him of selling out to employers with sweetheart contracts. Other union chiefs despised him as a double-crosser. Establishments that resisted his organizers had fire-bomb problems. But like Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Bramlet...
Credit counselors invariably bewail the willingness of consumers to take the first time-payment deal they are offered -and with good reason. To test the benefits of shopping around, TIME staffers in New England, the Midwest and the California-Nevada area asked various lenders what terms they would.offer to a salesman who earned $20,000 a year and wanted to borrow $2,000 to take his wife and two children on a vacation. The salesman was assumed to be making mortgage payments on a $40,000 house, and to be paying $110 a month on an auto loan...
...took a factory job, then moved the family to upstate New York -Bird studied at Long Island University, then went on to graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. After earning her law degree at Berkeley in 1965, she became the first woman to clerk on the Nevada Supreme Court, where Justice David Zenoff pronounced her "intellectually marvelous." Bird, who has never been married, then became the first female public defender in Santa Clara County, Calif., and also taught litigation and consumer law from 1972 to 1974 at Stanford...
...past few years, aggressively recruiting coaches have skimmed away the best talent from New York's playgrounds. If one wanted to see the pro prospects turned out by high school powerhouses like DeWitt Clinton, Taft, Boys High, Power Memorial, and Canarsie in action, the best bet was to watch Nevada-Las Vegas or Tennessee on television...
Other farmers want the Federal Government to ease up on land-use controls. This view is not shared by another powerful Western interest group, the environmentalists. Noting that vast areas of the West are owned by the Federal Government-up to 85% of Nevada -Bill Press, director of California's Office of Planning and Research, declared. "There is a need for the Government to get its own house in order: forest, grazing land and desert. As of now, the Feds have no real land-management policy...